Valve just released a few more screenshots of the ‘Swamp Fever’ scenario in their upcoming sequel ‘Left 4 Dead 2′. The game will be available to the public to play at this coming Comic-Con in San Diego.

Steam officially launched their ‘Family Games’ for Steam users who are interested in buying kid friendly games. This is probably to draw in parents who uses Steam to play adult titles to buy family games and start their kids on Steam format.

Consumers and gamers alike feel it’s their right to complain about the things they buy, and core gamers are most notorious for bad mouthing and slamming the games they hold so dear. But what if they paid for development out of their own pockets?

There have been a lot of controversy on Left 4 Dead 2 being release too soon when Left 4 Dead just been out less than a year. Fans feel betrayed after hearing news of the sequel coming out this year. However, good news came in a interview with VP marketing Doug Lombardi.

After signing a deal a year ago, Valve has finally come through and added an update that will allow Orange Box Games, such as, Half-Life 2: Episode 1 & 2, Portal and Team Fortress2, to use Novint’s Falcon three-dimensional controller.

Another awesome mod for Left 4 Dead out this week, Resident Evils Racoon City is now coming to Left 4 Dead — made possible throught he authoring tools which allows the public to create mods, maps and tinker out all the goodies.

Team Fortress 2 enthusiasts can save themselves from some headaches starting today: Valve has released an update to the Source SDK which allows players to edit existing maps instead of being limited to building them from the ground up.

In case you’ve missed it, there’s quite a hullabaloo going on among the Left 4 Dead community. So far, over 20,000 fans have agreed to boycott the upcoming sequel, Left 4 Dead 2, if Valve doesn’t make some changes.

Well Valve will be going ahead with their sequel ‘Left 4 Dead 2′, even though there is a huge petition going around to stop this. So for now let just set that aside and just see if this sequel is worth the buy.

The announcement of Left 4 Dead 2 has caused a significant amount of players unrest at how early the sequel is going to be released. Steam members had quickly created a boycott group on Steam which now has now almost reached 20,000 members at the time of writing.

Few days ago at E3, Valve announce they will be releasing ‘Left 4 Dead 2′ this November. However, a lot of gamers of L4D community was not happy with this news since L4D is only a year old with a lot of promises to the game that was not kept.

Left 4 Dead 2 is shaping up to be bigger and better than its predecessor, if only incrementally so. Since the game is coming out this coming year, quite a bit of information is already floating around about the game, including some live gameplay footage.

For those of you that miss the chance to get the orange box for $10. Steam is offering a special deal this week for Team Fortress 2. Gamers can play the game this weekend for free or buy it now for $9.99.

The leaked Team Fortress 2 video footage we reported here has gone down like an absolute lead balloon at Valve headquarters. Initial speculation that the video was leaked for publicity has been proven 100 percent incorrect. Why you ask?

Valve one of the leading video game publishers has filed suit against Activision Blizzard, also another leading game publishers. Valve’s suit alleges that Activision did not hold up to an agreement to abide by an arbitrator’s April 6th award decision involving a 2002 dispute over royalties.

Valve and Tripwire’s new zombie-killing titled ‘Killing Floor’ is having a promotion sale. Gamers who pre-order the game through Steam before May 14 will get 25% off the purchase. Also, check out the new trailer for the game.

Valve is now starting to let developers and publishers charge for new extra contents just like Xbox and Playstation. This will hit hard to fans of Steam, since Valve a year ago argued over the idea of charging the same customers for new contents.

Very cool TF2 map of World of Warcraft arena battleground. The details on the map is amazing and you can actually download the map to try it out yourself too. All thanks to Markus Frank for creating the map.